Tag: Buses - Page 5
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StreetFilms Covers Best of Bike to Work Day
We already got excited about Bike To Work day events in Seattle, and we cast a (slightly) critical eye over some of the green biking gear being offered by the good folks at Terrapass in honor of the event. We should have known though that StreetFilms
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StreetFilms' Animation Explains Diverters as Traffic-Calming Measure
From the benefits of raised crosswalks to traffic calming chicanes, StreetFilms have produced some great animations that help to explain the tools at our disposal to make streets more pedestrian and bike friendly. The video above illustrates how
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Melbourne: A Pedestrian's Paradise
From Bogota to Istanbul to LA (LA!?), StreetFilms have been a great source for accessible yet detailed films that outline lessons in making streets more pedestrian, bicycle and mass-transit friendly, and in greening the cities that so many of us live
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Riding a Better Bus
Whenever we write about public transit, we get all kinds of comments about the sort of person that rides buses, like this one from a bus driver: "No one wants to pay for public transportation, because they think only the poor use it." But like any
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StreetFilms Looks at Bus Rapid Transit in LA
LA isn't exactly known as the most transit-friendly city in the world. Built around the motorcar, and lacking the density of cities like New York or Washington DC, it's hard to imagine how Los Angeles can remedy this situation either. However, if this
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Mexico City Receives Payment for BRT Carbon Mitigation
In recent months, we've noted that two Mexican companies, Pemex and Cemex, are looking for ways to mitigate their carbon dioxide emissions under the Kyoto Protocol and get paid for it.
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In China, Winning Girls and Glory -- Without a Car
China's Green Brothers (John Romankiewicz and Zhao Xiangyu) are on a mission to expose the upside of China's environmental challenge through video podcasts. Their first three episodes (including this one we covered on recycling) were informative but
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Finding True Love on Public Transit: Bus Bet Leads to Marriage
Bus-riding is for lovers. So proved Amanda Hodson and Brendan Miles, who were both taking the bus one fateful day in Calgary about five years ago. Amanda, who got on first, was riding with her friends when they bet her $40 to
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UK Bus Operator: Manufacturers Are Not Doing Enough
We’ve already seen attempts to make bus travel more sustainable in cities around the world, from Delhi to Berlin to Jerusalem to London. While such moves may be encouraging experiments, it seems that the major vehicle manufacturers are not pulling
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Eco-friendly Bus Fleet Takes Off in Delhi
The Delhi government
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NYC Transit To Become More Eco-Friendly
The nation's largest mass-transit system is looking at ways it could become more environmentally friendly. Rooftop gardens on bus depots and windmills at rail yards are just a couple of the ideas being batted around by a member
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Microsoft Launches Private Bus Service- Windows Included
Microsoft has introduced a 14 bus fleet to keep employees happy, out of bumper-to-bumper traffic, and reduce air pollution and traffic congestion. "It is a great corporate decision to take a look at where the transportation system isn't meeting the
